Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple, a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

“Why are there so many baseball autobiographies?"/"Because every pitcher tells a story.”

"Every picture tells a story” is an old saying that was popularized as the title of a 1971 rock song and album by Rod Stewart. There’s a baseball pun:

Q: Why are there so many baseball autobiographies?
A: Because every pitcher tells a story.

Every Pitcher Tells a Story: Letters Gathered by a Devoted Baseball Fan was a the title of a 1999 book by Seth Swirsky. The full joke has been cited in print since at least 2012 and 2013.

Wikipedia: Every Picture Tells a StoryEvery Picture Tells a Story is the third album by Rod Stewart, released in the middle of 1971. It incorporates hard rock, folk, and blues styles. It went to number one on both the UK and U.S. charts and finished third in the Pazz & Jop critics’ poll for best album of 1971. It has been an enduring critical success, including a number 172 ranking on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time[4] and inclusion in both 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005) and 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (2008).